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What are the Sources of Conflict along the Haitian-Dominican Border?
Posted by ONeil in Publications in English on June 22nd, 2010
Fishermen from Pedernales and Anse a Pitre working together to improve fishing in their area.
As part of its MIF/OAS funded program, PADF hired Dr. Gerald Murray to conduct a study of the sources of conflict along the Haitian-Dominican border. This work was done in parallel with Dr. Murray’s study of mutual perceptions and attitudes that exist between Dominicans and Haitians. Although the bulk of the fieldwork was done in 2009, Dr. Murray returned to the island after the earthquake and updated the report based on the changed conditions that he found. Though nobody yet knows what is in store post-earthquake, Haiti will never be a replica of the country before the earthquake. The earthquake also exerts a profound impact, somewhat more predictable, on the economy and demography of the Dominican Republic as well. These impacts are already being sensed, though they cannot yet be fully charted.
Dominican-Haitian Racial and Ethnic Perceptions and Sentiments
Posted by ONeil in Publications in English on June 22nd, 2010
PADF commissioned Dr. Gerald Murray to investigate mutual perceptions and attitudes that exist between Dominicans and Haitians, with a particular focus on the border area. The context for the assignment was the concern among development professionals, created not only by negative media coverage, but also various human rights reports and academic studies, that a situation of such conflict exists between Haitians and Dominicans in the border area that bilateral collaboration will be difficult. A companion report to the current one deals with the specific conflicts. This report will deal with the opinions that Dominicans and Haitians expressed about each other during six weeks of interviewing in the months. Read the rest of this entry »
How should conflict should be addressed
Posted by Molano in Publications in English, Travel on June 17th, 2010
Sebastián Molano
Ms. Yadira Soto, advisor to the office of the Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), and expert on conflict resolution visited the border area -her second visit, during a mission on the Haitian-Dominican border. During her visit, she visit different areas (Pedernales-Anse a Pitres), discuss with producer groups of the area, and asses the current situation of conflict.
As a result, she offers us this report , where she states different sources of conflict, assessment of the work done by PADF in the area, and formulate a series of recommendations in a technical level that could be useful for future interventions in the region.
This mission was possible due to the support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the OAS and PADF.
Launch of the book “La Frontera dominico-haitiana”
Posted by ONeil in Activities, Publications in English on January 7th, 2010
We are proud to announce that we are launching the book La Frontera dominico-haitiana on Wednesday, January 13th at 7:00 pm at the Academia de Ciencias (Calle Las Damas, zona colonial, Santo Domingo). This is second book that we have published with Ciudades y Fronteras and their fourth publication. The book consists of ten essays and three annexes in Spanish written by authors from five countries. This is the most complete, most up-to-date reference book on the Haitian-Dominican border. It is available in the Dominican Republic for 500 pesos or internationally for $25.
La Frontera Dominico-Haitiana was published with support from the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Organization of American States.
The new progress report for the Our Border Program
Posted by ONeil in Activities, Publications in English, What's New on November 4th, 2009
We’ve just published our semi-annual progress report [pdf file, 2.2MB). This twenty-two page report includes a description of the background behind our project, our current activities, and our future plans. Although it was written primarily for our donors, we are happy to share it with anyone interested.
Free English/Kreyol printable dictionary
Posted by ONeil in Publications in English, Travel on September 16th, 2009
Daniel O’Neil, Country Director
Binational meeting in Elias Piña, Dominican Republic
The biggest stumbling block to cross-border collaboration on the Haitian-Dominican border is language. We’ve tried every technique to facilitate cross-border meetings:
- Handpicking participants to ensure a common language (normally Spanish, but sometimes English): This makes for easy meetings, but normally eliminates key people that should participate but don’t have the language skills. Read the rest of this entry »
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